21. [English History Collection] – Palmer, Marilyn / Neaverson, Peter.

Industrial Archaeology: Principles and Practice.

London, Routledge, 1998. 17.5 cm x 24.5 cm. XII, 180 pages including many photographs and illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscription by preowner.

22. Prisons – Maddocks.

James Neild Esqr.

Original engraving. no place. [c.1804]. Plate Size: 10 cm x 19 cm. Sheet Size: 13. 3 cm x 21 cm. In very good condition. Minor inkstain visible.

23. Shakespeare, William.

King Henry VIII / King Richard II. With Preface, Glossary & C by Israel Gollancz.

Two Volumes of The Temple Shakespeare. London, J.M. Dent and Co., 1895, 10.5 cm x 13.5 cm. King Henry VIII – Frontispieces (Old Palace, Whitehall), XIII, 163 pages / King Richard II – Frontispiece (Berkley Castle), X, 140 pages. Original Hardcover with debossed crest on covers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Highly decorated title pages featuring portraits of respective Kings. Gilt top edges and deckled fore and bottom edges. Minor discoloration to endpapers and pastedowns. Main text, print and pages bright and clear. Shakespeare’s Crest on pastedowns. A verse by Hugh Holland printed on the protective tissue for the frontispiece in Henry VIII volume and prose from I.S.M. (From Second Folio) on protective tissue in the Richard II volume. [The Temple Shakespeare]

24. Collins, Leonora.

London in the Nineties [Victorian London in Photographs]. Edited by Leonora Collins.

London, The Saturn Press, 1950. Quarto (21 cm x 27 cm). 96 pages with many photographs. Original Hardcover with the rare dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

25. Allitt, John S. / Blake, L.L. / Carey, John / Lindop, Grevel / Milne, Joseph / Raine, Kathleen.

Monarchy – A Series of Papers Delivered to the Temenos Academy Published to Mark the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

London, The Temenos Academy, 2002. 14.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 122 pages. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Temenos Academy Papers No.18]

26. [English History Collection] – Aspinall, A. [Ed].

Mrs. Jordan and her Family: Being the Unpublished Letters of Mrs. Jordan and the Duke of Clarence, later William IV.

First edition. London, Arthur Barker Ltd., 1951. 16 x 25cm. (27), 295 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to dustjacket and mild foxing to edges. Pre-owner’s name inscribed on front endpaper.

27. Tollemache, Lionel A.

Old and Odd Memories.

London, Edward Arnold, 1908. 23cm x 15cm. 328 pages. Original hardcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of age-related wear including some mild foxing. Inscribed and signed by Lionel A. Tollemache on the endpaper: “To Winnie – Lionel A. Tollemache” / Further inscribed by the recipient ‘Winnie’ who passed on the book as gift: “…+ then to my two dear American friends, the Davenport Wests from Cousin Winnie”.

28. [Colles, Henry Cope] / [″GRJ” Georgius VI Rex (King George VI)].

Original Certificate with beautiful Letterhead of Buckingham Palace (″GRJ”) for a Medal awarded by King George VI to english music critic Henry Cope Colles “to be worn in commemoration of Their Majesties’ Coronation 12th May, 1937”.

[London], Buckingham Palace, 1937. Quarto (19.6 cm wide x 24.7 cm high). 1 page. Very good condition with minor signs of wear.

29. [Buckingham Palace] Wardrop, Colonel F.M. [C.B. abd Military Attache to the British Embassy in Vienna (1900-1909) as well as Aide de Camp during the Egyptian War].

Original Luncheon-Invitation-Ticket-List, published in Book-Form with original Ivory-Head-Pencil by Johann Faber (Bavaria), attached on the occasion of King Edward VII’s Coronation Dinner at : “Hotel Belgravia / Buckingham Palace” – Original Ticket-Book: “List of Guests for Luncheon and Dinner – 1902 for King Edward VII’s Guests Colonel F.M.Wardrop, C.B., Colonel Commandant Johann von Belnay, Lieutenant-Colonel Ludwig Koch and Captain Adalbert Guilleaume”.

[London], Buckingham Palace / Hotel Belgravia, 1902. Oblong Octavo (14.6 cm wide x 11.8 cm high). 40 pages with partial perforation for detaching of Luncheon- and Dinner-Tickets. Hardcover / Original Royal Blue Publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on cover and pencil-satchet attached to the binding. Some minor staining to the binding only. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. With the pencil included and the original elastic ribbon which allows the booklet to be closed. Wonderful example of the wealth of the Coronation-Event at the end of the Victorian and the beginning of the Edwardian Age (printed ticket-books for 4 attendees seem very luxurious indeed). Five tickets were used for Dinner at the Belgravia and each remaining stub was signed / monogrammed by Colonel F.M.Wardrop.

30. [Paterson, Daniel] Mogg, Edward.

Paterson’s Roads [1831/1832 Edition (18th Edition)] – Being an entirely original and accurate Description of all the direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, with part of the roads of Scotland. [Including an “Appendix to the Eighteenth Edition of Paterson’s Roads; being An Accurate Description of the Direct and Principal Cross roads communicating with the Improved Old Passage Ferry, across the River Severn, between Aust and Beachley, near Chepstow. Accompanied by a Map of the Banks of the Wye. To which are added, Course of the Chepstow Steam Packets; and An arranged Tour through Wales, with References to the pages in the Body of the Work, where connection with various lines of Road takes place.”]. The Eighteenth Edition. To which are added Topographical Sketches of the several Cities, Market Towns and remarkable Villages and descriptive accounts of the principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry, the Antiquities, Natural Curiosities and other Remarkable Objects throughout the Kingdom. The whole Remodelled, Augmented and Improved by the Addition of Numerous New Roads and New Admeasurements, and Arranged upon A Plan at once Novel, clear and intelligible, is deduced from the latest and best Authorities: Including a Table of the Heights of Mountains from the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of the Kingdom; Also a Table of the Population, From the Census of 1831; To which is annexed the Arrival and Departure of the Mail, together with the Rates of Postage and An Entirely New Set of Maps.

London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1831/1832. Octavo (15 cm x 21,5 cm). Fontispiece – Fold-out-Map, 715 pages plus 44 pages of an Appendix. With twelve (12) Maps, including the frontipiece-map and full-page maps throughout the publication. Hardcover / Private half-leather of the early 20th century with gilt lettering on the spine. Some of the maps with visible reapirs but complete. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This being the so-called “Best Edition”.